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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 21:47:48 +0100
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 04/12/2024 13:07, D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> On 04/12/2024 10:10, D wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Robert Riches wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> About 45 years ago, while eating in the college dorm cafeteria, I
>>>>> noticed the piece of "chicken" on my plate was a little tougher
>>>>> and drier than most chicken, and the arrangement of the bones did
>>>>> not appear to be consistent with any piece of chicken I had ever
>>>>> seen.  I had eaten rabbit a few years earlier, when my uncle was
>>>>> raising them, so I started to suspect the "chicken" was really
>>>>> rabbit.  My suspicion was confirmed when I heard a girl shriek
>>>>> rather unhappily from a couple of tables away, "We're eating
>>>>> BUNNIES!"
>>>> 
>>>> How strange! How come they didn't just say that todays special was 
>>>> rabbit? Or maybe there was an error somewhere with the delivery and some 
>>>> boxed got mixed up?
>>> 
>>> People have childhood memories of Peter rabbit and Bambi.
>> 
>> So do I, but I still enjoy eating them. People are strange! Sometimes I do 
>> not understand them at all.
>
> People as children get to associate words, images ideas with emotions.
>
> So 'all snakes BAD!! RUN. Bambi CUTE  - cuddle  - don't eat.'
>
> Then when - or if - they grow up, they replace them with more sophisticated 
> and rational judgements.
>

Yes, I guess the "if" is key here. ;)
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